Monday, July 11, 2016

Step One Adaptive Adds Speech Recognition

Speech recognition is becoming common on computing devices, and the World Wide Web Consortium – the group that controls web browser standards and the HTML markup language – has included it in the HTML5 specification being implemented in all new web browsers.  As a web-based application, Step One Adaptive benefits from this browser modernization and now takes advantage of it to add speech recognition. 

We have implemented this feature for text fields, and microphone icons will now appear next to fields for those using the newest Chrome browser for Windows or Android.  As other browsers comply with the new standard and issue new versions, the little mics will be there too.  In the meantime, we recommend Chrome. 

As the speech recognition technology improves its ability to understand human speech and sentence context, the browsers will issue updates and the benefits will appear in your app automatically.  Of course we are always looking for ways to leverage technology to improve the user experience and save our customers time. 



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